Nov 15 2016

Please use the webinterface on mobile devices, including Android. discourse.wmflabs.org displays nicely in a webbrowser on a mobile device. The Discourse Android app is outdated and does not originate from the developers of Discourse.

Apr 7 2016

@Ottomata thanks for looking it to this. I have good news. The good news is that my machine is now provisioned with eventlogging without errors. I solved by vagrant destroy deleting the instal path ~/Vagrant and start over with $ git clone --recursive https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/mediawiki/vagrant . Previously I used the .iso image from https://mediawiki-vagrant-image.wmflabs.org/mediawiki-vagrant/ . My guess is there something not good in the .iso image, at least when used at a Windows host @bd808. Question for @Jdforrester-WMF if my solutions works for you?

Apr 4 2016

In MediaWiki-Vagrant there is a role Flow which depends on the role centralauth. After enabling Flow (and provisioning and waiting for an hour) you'll end up with a farm consisting of

dev.wiki.local.wmftest.net

login.wiki.local.wmftest.net

centralauthtest.wiki.local.wmftest.net

fr.wiki.local.wmftest.net

frwiktionary.wiki.local.wmftest.net

he.wiki.local.wmftest.net

zhwikivoyage.wiki.local.wmftest.net

For existing registered users on your localhost (dev.wiki.local.wmftest.net) you have to manage your global account in preferences. If you don't you get an error page at login.wiki.local.wmftest.net after log in and you have to go manually to dev.wiki.local.wmftest.net to find your wiki where you are logged in. (I haven't found a way to add additional wikis in this setup.)
Looks to me there is something like a wikifarm role now.

Apr 3 2016

I've got mediawiki-vagrant up and running including visualeditor role. However with enabling flow provision says ""error: pkg.m4 missing, please install pkg-config". How to surpass this hurdle? Where and how should I install pkg-config (I tried manually several places without success).

@RobLa-WMF , thanks for the kind words. The status of Discourse is a pilot a test and generates feedback about what people like and what people don't like. There are some strong preferences to receive updates or notifications by mail about discussions and to be able not only to reply by mail to a discussion thread but also to be able to create a new thread. Some people have been asking for synchronization of mailing lists and Discourse. As, if and when that materializes Discourse can or will coexist alongside Mailman mailing lists, just like gmane coexists alongside Mailman. Discourse provides an alternative web interface and some extras. GNU Mailman 3.0 also provides a web interface. After an updrade to Mailman 3 there might be a reduced level of interest in moving to Discourse.

Feb 3 2016

Thanks for looking into this. I understand it is several days of work no matter which option is chosen. To get this feature some funding or sponsoring is necessary or someone higher up in the hierarchy to allocate resources c.q. prioritize this task amidst the plethora of other tasks. I flag this for later.

Jan 28 2016

Ideally discourse.wmflabs.org should be working with Wikimedia single-signon (SSO) credentials, apart from the specific problem listed here. Detailed instructions are here and I don't think it should be difficult. This way users could sign in with their Wikimedia credentials. What do you think?

Jan 27 2016

As an admin at https://discourse.wmflabs.org/ I just upgraded the Discourse installation. Discourse has two kinds of sysops "admin" and "moderator". I haven't found out yet if someone with "moderator" rights can upgrade the installation or not. This is something to be aware of that an "admin" can at the browser interface of Discourse with a single mouse click start an upgrade.

Dec 23 2015

The template calls has been added to a page in a VE enabled namespace: sandbox. In VisualEditing mode the chart isn't displayed, there is a puzzle piece and another icon (image not available or something). Clicking the edit button on the puzzle piece allows for easy editing of the fields and the data - thought it is now in the above shown JSON form.

Thanks for your comment @Yurik.
So that is a great idea to create a template. I templatified the original pie chart. On the talk page I inserted the pie chart as a template call: {{Gebruiker:Ad Huikeshoven/Taartgrafiek|heigth=125|width=125|innerradius=10|values=[